- The
metasoma is the
posterior part of the body, or tagma, of
arthropods whose body is
composed of
three parts, the
other two
being the
prosoma and the...
- posterior, the
metasoma or post-abdomen.
External differences between the ****es are not
obvious in most species. In some, the
metasoma is more elongated...
- when the
wings are
folded over the body, the metanotum, propodeum, and
metasoma are
often obscured. The
tegula covers the base of the wing. A
small chalcidoid...
- and
gaster (abdominal
segments 2 and onward) are
collectively called the
metasoma.
Unlike other arthropods,
insects possess no legs on the
abdomen in adult...
- The
gaster is the
bulbous posterior portion of the
metasoma found in
hymenopterans of the
suborder Apocrita (bees,
wasps and ants). This
begins with abdominal...
- to 0.3 mm. The
mesosoma is
rather high and is
mostly shorter than the
metasoma, and the
prothorax is very short. The
scutellum is
shorter than the mid...
-
second abdominal segment into a node-like petiole. The head, mesosoma, and
metasoma are the
three distinct body
segments (formally tagmata). The
petiole forms...
- body is
composed of
three parts, the
other two
being the
prosoma and the
metasoma. It
bears the legs, and, in the case of
winged insects, the wings. In hymenopterans...
- in mutillids. In both ****es, a
structure called a
stridulitrum on the
metasoma is used to
produce a
squeaking or
chirping sound when alarmed. Both ****es...
- the
worker ant, the
abdomen consists of the
propodeum fused to the
thorax and the
metasoma,
itself divided into the
narrow petiole and
bulbous gaster....
